By John Loftus, Daily Caller News Foundation | February 19, 2025
All aboard the Gravy Train! Kamala Harris is ready to cash in on her calamitous time in the White House and gut-wrenching defeat to President Donald Trump.
Creative Artists Agency (CAA), one of Hollywood’s mega talent agencies, announced Tuesday that they signed the failed presidential candidate just weeks after signing the former skeleton-in-chief she kicked off the Democratic ticket, Joe Biden.
“CAA will work closely with Harris on her post-White House initiatives, creating strategic opportunities that expand her platform in support of the issues she has championed throughout her decades-long career in public service,” the agency said, noting they will focus on speaking engagements and publishing.
The agency now represents not only Biden and Harris but also former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, along with a spate of stars, including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Lady Gaga, and Beyonce. For someone as pitiful and pitifully untalented as Kamala, she is truly in fine company. Brad Pitt? I mean, seriously, the former vice president is A-list material.
The post-public service cash grab — it’s the great promise of public service, and perhaps why so many middling souls seek higher office. The lesser-known lawmakers might take a job lobbying, and if you are a former regulator, you work for the people you previously regulated to help them navigate the regulations you created. If you are somewhere in between a lesser-known lawmaker and the President of the United States, say, a former cabinet official, maybe you accept a plum offer to sit on the board of a major corporation. Hello, Boeing?
There is something obscene about a former public official using their status as a former public official to rake in dough by spurious means. Public service should be about serving the public, not serving your bank accounts, and it is perhaps why the swamp is so corrupt: everyone’s just trying to snake through the system and survive at all costs, even if it means throwing away principles and screwing over constituents and taxpayers, so they get their book deals and sinecures when all is said and done.
Here’s an idea: every dollar Biden and Harris make through lucrative book deals (not that either of them can write a sentence), speaking engagements (not that either of them can actually speak), or podcasts (ditto) — all that money goes straight back to the taxpayer.
John Loftus is an editor at large at the Daily Caller News Foundation
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